NATAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8135, 9 May 1906, Page 5

NATAL.

THE NATIVE DISTURBANCE. ZULUS' BRAVER*. Reoeived May 8, 8.11 a.m. LONDON, May 7. Tho Maritzburg correspondent of the Daily Mail says that two hundred Zulus, who were partly armed with rifles and partly with assegais, displayed extreme bravery, DISILLUSIONED FIGHTERS. Received May 8, 9.22 a.m. PIETERMAKITBURU, May 7. The rebels were prepared by a witch doctor before the fight. Believing they were invulnerable they obargeci desperately. The heavy losses which resulted have undermined the witch doctor's, prestige. The effect of the Maxim guns demoralised the waverers. Bambaata, mounted on a white horse, led the attack. The rebels checked the column's advance by setting Are to the grass. The infantry was eighteen hours marching and fighting before they regained Fort Yolland. TRADUOERS CONDEMNED. Received May 8, 9.36 a.m. CAPETOWN, May 7. Public opinion in South Afrioa bitterly complains of the Home Radicals grossly maligning the Cape. Natal and the Transvaal, the traduoers thereby unintentionally but perceptibly hastening the federation of South Afrioa. The Natal Mercury declares that Mr Steyn's recent speech was a travesty of history, designed to arouse racial hatred. Received May 8, 10.40 p.m. PiETERMARLTZBURG, May 8. | It is reported at Durban that assegai heads made in Birmingham and Germany were imported into Zululand via Delagoa Bay ana Swaziland. Snider cartridges were also imported into Zululand by this route.